the dinner get islands were at the epicenter, anders jamila allen, dugan reports survivors a desperate for drinking water and fi. this is central saying, connecticut. i lived at town, which bore the brunt of super typhoon rice piri, on thursday. what was once a thriving coastal community. now desolate my marathon and your own dear to ring. i have been living here for more than 50 years. a home they built to raise a family. this is all what's left of it, like what they love for to like i own. when when you know that they phone was very strong and we went downstairs to hide, but our walls gallon so we rather than a were a were very scared to run. and im right. everywhere you look there is destruction. it's been days since typhoon re devastated the southern philippines. but this community remains cut off from the rest of the world. though so survived here tell us. life will never be the same again for them. men here feel frustrated and abandoned. hardly anything is spared. here in the market, not even its provincial capital, like a landscape scraped by a steel brush or the immediate after

winds down the power lines and destroyed homes, forcing hundreds of thousands to seek safety. jamila allen jogan reports from manila more than 24 hours since stifled ry 1st made landfall in the philippines, and many areas remain cut off. government leaders admit they are struggling to get an accurate picture of the typhoons impact in their gross and sir ego provinces. in the town of mary bo hawk, if the whole province rescue operations are still underway. local government workers there say at least 20000 families have already been evacuated from their homes, and many more are in desperate need of rescue. evacuees can't stay in temporary shelters for too long because of cove 19 restrictions. social distance sink impact evacuation sites is difficult to implement. many say there are more worried about the long term impact of this devastation. millions of filipinos are already bearing the brunt of the economic recession. the fear, the latest typhoon disaster could obliterate whatever livelihood they have left. the government has pre positioned aids and military as 1st responders across the cou